SWEET CELLS: LEARNING BIOLOGY ONE GUMMY AT A TIME (CLIL)
In the Bilingual Section of IES Cardenal López de Mendoza, our students turned the classroom into a mini lab and built edible cell models: an animal cell, a plant cell, and a prokaryotic cell using jelly, gummies, and a lot of scientific thinking.
This wasn’t just “arts & crafts”. The real challenge was to think like biologists: choose what each sweet represents and explain it clearly in English using key vocabulary such as cell membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus, ribosomes, rough/smooth ER, Golgi apparatus, mitochondria, chloroplast, cell wall, vacuole, and DNA (nucleoid).
The result was a true WOW moment: hands-on learning + real CLIL language + critical thinking. Students compared cell types, connected structure to function, and presented their models like a mini scientific talk.
Because when science is tangible… it sticks.
Amazing job!
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